Buffalo Parrot

• Parrot Toys
• Table of Contents
• Fitness & Excercise Toys
• Toys with Noise!!!
• Shredding/Destroy Toys
• Foraging/Interactive Toys
• Foot Toys
• Safety/Inspection
• Cages & sizes

These toys are great for your Parrots mental and physical health!  Heck... Our Pacific Parrotlet loves to run in a Gerbil Wheel!  Here is a list of these toys:

-Swings

-Playgyms

-Grippable Perches

-Grippable cage bars

-Boings

-Ladders 

Most of us hate 'em... but they sure love 'em!! Parrots are naturally social birds that just love communicating. These toys help with these skills. Sometimes our parrots get mad at the noises their toys make, other times they seem to almost talk to them. Here are some of these toys.

-Bells... Of course!

-Birdy balls with bells in them

-Chimes outside your window

-Music from your radio... ours love Classical!

-CDs made for your Parrots

-T.V., Especially cartoons! 

-Water Faucets... our guys go nuts every time the water gets turned on! 

-Toys with rattles

-Squeaky Toys 

Almost all Parrots love to chew and destroy things.  If not provided with enough of these toys they may just indulge with your furniture!  These toys help with beak conditioning, there natural chewing instinct and built up energy.  Here are some items available:

-Bird-safe wood of all different hardnesses

-Piñatas

-Alfalfa cubes... placed in veggie clips and foraging type toys

-Different shaped, colored wooden blocks

-Straw

-Bark

-Leather Strap type toys... love em!

-Even mineral blocks/Cuttlebone

-Safe natural tree branches

-Cardboard box type toys... Even filled with goodies! 

-Toys made of paper/cardboard parts 

This type of toy provides mental stimulation for your Parrots. Parrots just love trying to figure things out! They love to untie knots and remove pieces of a part of a toy. Here is a list of some of these toys:

-Foraging toys

-Mirror toys... Parrots can become obsessed with looking at themselves.

-Bead toys

-Puzzle Toys

-Snuggle toys, plush bird, etc..

-Foot Toys

-Surrogate Enemy Toys, let your parrot beat something up!

-Preening Toys... these toys come with what looks like a brush on the end.  This allows your Parrot to preen something other than itself. 

Many Parrots use there feet to grab objects and food.  These toys are made to stimulate this behavior.  This will give your Parrot some excercise & keep him occupied.  Here are some foot toys.

-Beadsticks

-Bagel Links

-Rattles

-Slotted Balls

-Bead Rings

Parrots are destructive creatures by nature and in time, their toys will become destroyed. This is normal and healthy. Periodically examine the toys for splintered wood, loose strings and straps, bent metal, loose bells, and mold or fungus. Prevent hazards before they happen. Replace these toys with new and different ones.  Rotate toys weekly if you can to keep your parrot stimulated.  Also, do not be afraid to make your own toys!  This can be very fun and rewarding to both human and parrot.  There are many places online or at petstores where you can find toy parts.  As a Parrot would say... Live life, PLAY HARD!!!                                                                                                                                

Here we will give a basic run down on the cage sizes for a particular species.  It is much better to have a wider cage than a taller one.  If you have Parrots with large tails, it is a good idea to also have their cage tall.  The sizes we will give are the minimum size for the species.  You should always try to get a bigger cage if you can.  The bigger the better!

-Small Parrots (Parrotlets, Budgies, Parakeets, Lineolated Parakeets, Lovebirds, Etc)

48 × 16 × 20 inches.

Medium/Small Parrots (Senegal Parrots, Caiques, Green Cheek Conures, Brotogeris, Pionus, Cockatiels, Etc)

 48 × 16 × 20 inches.

Medium Parrots (Conures, Ring Necked Parakeets, Hahn's Macaw, Lorikeets,  Quaker Parrots, Etc)

24 × 24 × 32 inches.

Large Parrots ( African Grey Parrots, Amazons, Eclectus Parrots, Cockatoos, Alexandrine Parakeets, Etc)

Indoor or out door aviary 9 × 3 × 6 feet.

X-large Parrots (  Hyacinth Macaws, Green Winged Macaws, Black Cockatoos, Major Mitchell's Cockatoos, Etc)

Cage or aviary 3 × 2 1/2 × 6 feet.